IBM has opened the first-ever KVM Center of Excellence in Beijing, China. The KVM Center of Excellence is co-located with the China Systems Center in Beijing (located at Zhong Guang Cun Software Park, Hai Dian District, Beijing, China 11 100085).
With this new KVM Center of Excellence, we are leveraging IBM’s KVM expertise in China to make it easy for clients and partners to meet the experts, have access to briefings, to enrich their staffs with training, and to conduct proofs of concept of their own solutions.
Linux Distribution Partners Red Hat and SUSE are participating in the KVM Center of Excellence with demos, training, briefings and proofs of concepts of their solutions and access to their technical experts.
The KVM Center of Excellence in Beijing opened on November 28, with a media launch event.
IBM executives reveal the opening of the first KVM Center of Excellence - Beijing, November 28, 2012 (from left Jean Staten Healy, Kelly Beavers, Dominic Tong, Josephine Cheng)
Technology Showcase in the KVM Center of Excellence
IBM clients, partners and sellers can come to the KVM Center of Excellence to learn about open virtualization with KVM through briefings, demos, trainings and proofs of concept.
Technologies showcase in the center include, but are not limited to:
- IBM System x
- IBM PureFlex System
- IBM SmartCloud Entry
- IBM Systems Director VM Control
- IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- SUSE Cloud
IBM chose China for this first KVM Center of Excellence, because of the tremendous growth of virtualization deployments in China. According to IDC, virtualization is growing faster in China than the rest of the world, making it critical for these organizations to get the information they need now. The KVM Center of Excellence enables organizations to become educated about open virtualization and particularly KVM so they can make smarter choices about the virtualization technology they rely on.
Contact the KVM Center of Excellence in Beijing
Appointments in the KVM Center of Excellence will be scheduled on demand. Please contact David Hsu at hsud@us.ibm.com to schedule an appointment.
What is KVM
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source hypervisor that provides enterprise-class performance, scalability and security to run Windows and Linux workloads. KVM provides organizations a cost-effective alternative to other x86 hypervisors, and enables a lower-cost, more scalable, and open Cloud. Learn more here
IBM brings its expertise and longstanding commitment to open source and virtualization to KVM, contributing key performance, reliability and security features, and offering extensive virtualization management and Cloud capabilities.
IBM press release
Press release (Chinese) announcing KVM Center of Excellence here
Blog about KVM Center Of Excellence
Virtualization@IBM blog article about the opening of the KVM Center of Excellence here